Since July 2020, Ricardo Gottschalk has been at the UN RCO in South Africa to coordinate SDG-related research and analysis. Between 2012 and 2020 he worked at UNCTAD in Geneva. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies where he co-directed the MPhil Development Studies and convened the MA Globalisation and Development. He holds a BA in Economics and MA and DPhil in Economics.